A Kutztown
University student was beaten to death on a downtown sidewalk early Friday and
three men were arrested in the attack. The three were charged with assaulting
Kyle Quinn, 19, and the district attorney said he anticipated filing homicide
charges, pending an autopsy scheduled for Saturday.

A police
officer in the small college town happened upon the scene shortly after 2 a.m.,
saw Quinn on ground and arrested the three men, who are not believed to be
students, Berks County

District
Attorney Mark Baldwin said.

"He had
been beaten and was lying in a pool of blood on the sidewalk," Baldwin said.

Quinn, a
sophomore history major from Warminster, had transferred to Kutztown after one
year at Bucks County Community College, according to the university.

The attack
happened on Main Street, not far from shops, bars, restaurants and off-campus
apartments in downtown Kutztown. The quaint town has about 5,000 residents and
lies in a rural area between Reading and Allentown.

It was
Kutztown's first homicide since 1982 and the only the third since 1968,
officials said.

Nick
Santagata, 21, a fourth-year student at Kutztown, said he went outside for a
cigarette early Friday, spotted Quinn on the sidewalk about a half-block away,
and "heard a bunch of screaming and
yelling."

Police
showed up a short time later, tried to stanch Quinn's bleeding and took three
men into custody, he said. One of the suspects had a mohawk haircut and kept
saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry" as
he was being handcuffed, Santagata said.

Quinn
lived on campus, but investigators "don't know where he would have been coming
from or going to at the time," borough Police Chief Theodore Cole said.

The three
suspects' names weren't immediately released. They were each charged with
aggravated assault, simple assault and conspiracy.

Authorities were investigating what the motive might have been.

The
prosecutor said investigators have witnesses who saw the attack.

Students
and full-time residents say they have always felt safe in Kutztown.

Erma
Gajewski, who works at an antique store a few feet from where Quinn was beaten,
said violent crime is practically unheard of here.

"I always
felt safe in Kutztown. I still do, but this is scary," she said.

Kutztown's
president, F. Javier Cevallos, e-mailed students at 10 a.m. Friday to inform
them of Quinn's death. The university, one of 14 state-run colleges, says it has
about 10,000 full- and part-time
undergraduate and graduate students.

By Kathy Boccella, Michael Matza and Diane Mastrull

Inquirer Staff Writers

Police gather evidence from the sidewalk along Main Street
in Kutztown, where Kyle Quinn was found in a pool of blood. He was the son of a
Warminster Township supervisor.

KUTZTOWN, Pa. - His favorite movie was Easy Rider,
his favorite book was The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, his favorite
musician was Bob Dylan.

Despite his counterculture bent, Kyle Quinn - the son of a Warminster
Township supervisor - attended a very unradical college, Kutztown University, in
the heart of Amish country. Here, early yesterday, he was found fatally beaten
along quaint Main Street.

Police arrested three men who they say spent the night drinking in Shorty's
bar, then chose their 19-year-old victim at random and left him unconscious.

A police officer happened to come by the scene shortly before 2:30 a.m. and
made the arrests, Berks County District Attorney Mark Baldwin said.

Quinn "had been beaten and was lying in a pool of blood," Baldwin told
reporters.

Quinn was pronounced dead at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown at 3:36 a.m.
An autopsy was scheduled for today.

It was Kutztown's first homicide since 1982, officials said. This borough of
5,000 residents, nestled in farm country between Reading and Allentown, has had
only three murders since 1968.

Quinn lived on campus, but investigators "don't know where he would have been
coming from or going to at the time," borough Police Chief Theodore Cole told
the Associated Press.

Authorities were investigating a motive.

The suspects were identified as Terry D. Kline Jr., who turned 22 on
Thursday; his brother Kenneth R. Kline, 21; and Timothy R. Gearhart, 23. None of
them is a student at the small state college.

The three were charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and
conspiracy, and arraigned before District Judge Wallace Scott, who set bail at
$10 million each. The victim's parents were at the arraignment.

Murder charges were pending on the results of the autopsy, according to
officials.

The attack took place about a half-mile from campus, next to the China King
restaurant.

On Thursday night, the street's shops, bars and restaurants were jammed with
returning students, merchants said.

Tina Souilliard, who owns Beads of a Feather, a bead shop across the street
from Shorty's, said Thursday night was particularly busy on Main Street because
it was the first night that the kids really went out, the first weekend they
could party.

And Shorty's, a cavernous hall that formerly had been an antiques warehouse,
was featuring dollar-a-draft night.

With pool tables, banks of TVs tuned to sports programming, and an entrance
out back in front of its parking lot, Shorty's is the kind of bar that is
popular with students and townies, although many of them come from Allentown,
Reading and other nearby communities.

It's also the kind of bar where up to a dozen bouncers can be seen working on
a busy night, and patrons are checked with a metal-detecting wand before being
allowed entrance.

While students have been known to get drunk and disorderly, "it's never
escalated into something like this," said Louise Hutchings, a 24-year town
resident.

"Even if people have words with each other, to carry it that far, to kill
someone, it's hard to understand. I can't comprehend it, actually. If there are
three of them and just him, it's just complete brutality."

A white flower and two white votive candles marked the spot where Quinn was
struck down. Witnesses said they heard yelling and screaming, and saw Quinn
motionless on the sidewalk.

Kenneth Kline, who has a Mohawk haircut, kept saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry,"
as he was being handcuffed, according to one witness.

Quinn, a sophomore history major whose father is Leo Quinn III, chairman of
the Warminster Board of Supervisors, had been on the campus for less than two
weeks. He transferred to Kutztown after taking classes at Pennsylvania State
University and a summer course at Bucks County Community College, according to
the university.

An older brother, Dennis, also attended the university, said Robert T.
Watrous, dean of student services and campus life.

Quinn was a graduate of William Tennent High School in Warminster, where he
played varsity soccer in his senior year.

"He was just a really good athlete and a great kid," said athletic director
Lou Pacchioli. "He was a very quiet kid" and a good student.

Last night on Centenary Lane in Warminster, where the Quinns live in a
two-story red-brick Colonial, neighbors gathered on their front porch to console
each other and await the arrival of the victim's parents and brother. So tight
are the residents that one of them went from house to house yesterday morning
delivering the bad news, and a planned block party may be postponed or canceled,
said Jack Van Dusen, who lives across the street.

"I couldn't believe it, that somebody would just beat him up for no reason,"
he said. "I'm shocked this would happen to a boy like that."

Kyle Quinn, whom Van Dusen recalled trick-or-treating with his brother and
their sister, Caitlyn, as a youngster, never got into any trouble, he said.

Steve Macrone, who emerged from the Quinn house to speak on behalf of the
block of about 20 homes, said the victim's sister was inside but too devastated
to talk.

"This is a kid that did everything right in his life and he just came across
some bad people," he said. "And it's just hurting everybody."

According to a police affidavit, the three suspects were among a group of
five men who had driven from Allentown to Kutztown. One of the men, Derik
Houser, told police that they had been in a bar, and that after leaving, the
Kline brothers and Gearhart "got out of the car and started causing a problem
with a group of kids."

Houser said he saw Terry Kline throw a punch at Quinn and yell expletives at
him.

Though Quinn barely had time to settle into his Bonner Hall dorm room,
Watrous, the dean, said one faculty member who had met with him "spoke of him in
glowing terms."

"We're still in a state of shock. We had counselors and campus ministers out
and about all day long," he said.

Kutztown's president, F. Javier Cevallos, called the beating a "senseless,
isolated, random act of violence" and urged students to be vigilant. He e-mailed
students at 10 a.m. yesterday to inform them of Quinn's death.

Quinn's profile on the social networking site Facebook revealed a taste for
the 1960s.

"I like a lot of other stuff but if WWIII started tomorrow I would only grab
my Dylan albums," Quinn wrote.

Within hours of his death, friends began posting messages on Quinn's Facebook
page.

"Don't be afraid of death, for it is only the beginning of the greatest
adventure of all, The Unknown," wrote one.

"Life without you seems so empty. I know that you're smiling down on us right
now with that great smile," wrote another.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Toxicology tests will be needed after an
autopsy failed to determine the cause of death of a university student
found severely beaten, a coroner said Saturday.

Kyle Quinn, a 19-year-old sophomore at Kutztown University, was found
along Main Street in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country town around 2:30
a.m. Friday. He was pronounced dead at a hospital about an hour after
the attack.

The cause and manner of death could not be determined after an
autopsy Saturday, Lehigh County Coroner Scott M. Grim said in a
statement.

Authorities identified the suspects as Terry D. Kline Jr., 22; his
brother Kenneth R. Kline, 21; and Timothy R. Gearhart, 23. Aggravated
assault is one of the charges filed against the three Allentown men.

Berks County District Attorney Mark Baldwin said Friday that he
anticipated filing homicide charges after the autopsy.

"The doctors are very methodical and are taking their time," Baldwin
told the Reading Eagle on Saturday. "He (Quinn) is an innocent victim
who was beaten to death. It's very tragic."

Quinn, a sophomore history major from Warminster, had transferred to
Kutztown after taking classes at Penn State and a summer course at Bucks
County Community College, according to the university. He had been on
campus less than two weeks.

The college town has about 5,000 residents in a rural area between
Reading and Allentown. The last homicide there was in 1982.

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Another View

Flowers and candles mark the spot where Kyle Quinn, a student at Kutztown
University, was killed last Thursday. Some of the flowers are signed ''a local
citizen.'' Others come from businessmen or students. Others are anonymous.
Multiple generations of Kutztown residents have attended Kutztown University and
its on-campus lab school. I teach at KU, and have been touched by this tragedy,
a slaying right on our Main Street sidewalk. Last Thursday, we all lost one of
our own. And it feels, too, as if we've lost our town.

It's time for all of us to take it back. ''All of us'' means students,
professors, long-time residents, KU administrators, and borough officials. All
of us.

Most of the time, Kutztown is quiet and pleasant. My wife and two kids and I
live downtown and we love it. Our house is a block off Main Street, a few blocks
from campus. We walk or bike to shops and to work. We walk our son and daughter
to school. We see KU students downtown, and many know my children by sight. We
have student groups at my house. It's idyllic.

Kutztown used to be a pleasant little town with a college at the top of the
hill. Students boarded with families in town or rented whole houses in
established neighborhoods. But KU has grown to more than 10,000 students while
the town's population remains closer to 5,000. The relationship between it and
residents has been strained.

Student cars jam Main Street on Fridays as they head out for the weekend. KU has
become a self-contained world, unless students they are looking for an
unsupervised party -- and alcohol. (Alcohol is banned from campus.) Absentee
landlords have created dense areas populated only by a culture of young men and
women.

This monoculture doesn't feel right, either to residents or to students. I have
taken insomniac walks down Main Street in the wee hours, and it felt like a
scene out of a science fiction movie. Roving bands popped out of dark alleys and
headed to the next party. It was not a comfortable place for a sober,
middle-aged guy. Nor did my students necessarily wish to see their professor in
such a context. Some of them seemed embarrassed. One actually hid his face. One
recent evening, my wife and I walked back from a barbecue, the kids asleep in
our arms, and noticed startled, sheepish looks on the faces of some partiers.
Perhaps, we thought, the sight of small children suddenly recalled them to their
daytime selves.

Yet, students aren't the problem. The problem is the density of student housing
and the failure of KU and the borough to successfully address it. A dangrous
situation has worsened. Outsiders know that there is always a party to be
crashed in ''Kutz,'' where they do not have to be as responsible for their
actions as they would at home. Over time, families have moved out of downtown
after it became too difficult to live where parties get out of control And, it's
too easy to make money by renting to students, although recent ordinances have
made conversion to rental properties more difficult.

KU needs to proactively cooperate with the borough to create a safe, attractive
setting. The density of students downtown has created an attractive nuisance for
wannabe thugs looking for easy targets. The students aren't committing the
serious crimes; they're the targets and KU has an obligation to help protect
them.

KU and the borough must do a better job of cooperating on an operational level.
This is not a matter of KU President Javier Cevallos and Mayor Sandy Green
meeting on a regular basis, though that would be good. It is more important that
they press campus and borough police to cooperate day-to-day. And, KU must pay
its fair share. Such community policing is expensive, and we already have a
larger police force than is normal for a town of our size. We need to find the
resources to get our police out of their cars and among the people.

Since the density of student rentals has overwhelmed the borough, it and KU
ought to cooperate to create tax breaks or financial incentives to reconvert
apartments back into family dwellings. We need reasonable per capita fees to
defray the costs of this category of business.

Kyle Quinn's death reminds us of the cost of doing nothing, of the borough
blaming the students and KU throwing up its hands, as if its responsibility
ended at the edge of the campus. Solving these problems will require intensive,
new, creative cooperation. The time for half-measures is over.

Andrew B. Arnold is associate professor of history and director of the KU
Honors Program at Kutzown University of Pennsylvania.

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The people who most need to come together to discuss security concerns
for Kutztown University students met Wednesday in the wake of the fatal
assault of a sophomore. Among those in attendance were state Sen. Michael
O'Pake, D-Berks; state Rep. Carl W. Mantz, R-Lehigh and Berks; Kutztown
Mayor Sandy Green; Michael Weiser, chief of Berks-Lehigh Regional police;
Kutztown Police Chief Theodore Cole Jr.; and William F. Mioskie, the
university's police chief.

The discussion was wide-ranging, including Sen. O'Pake's request that the
university and borough tell him their priorities before capital budget
submissions are due in two weeks. Sen. O'Pake will seek community
revitalization funding, in addition to federal money via the Pennsylvania
Commission on Crime and Delinquency, to hire more borough police officers.

The installation of closed-circuit surveillance cameras is a good idea, too.
The borough's ''weekend'' actually starts on Thursday nights; college
students and many others begin drinking, and spill out of the bars and onto
the streets downtown. In fact, with Kutztown sitting between Allentown and
Reading, and Route 222 splitting the campus, a good percentage of the people
who frequent the bars have no affiliation with the university.

But, there's a missing piece of the crime-fighting puzzle, following the
brutal attack by three young men Sept. 7 of Kutztown student Kyle Quinn of
Warminster, Bucks County. The university also needs to beef up its own
security force and do whatever it takes to better protect its students in a
borough with a population that swells from 5,000 to more than 15,000 when
class is in session.

The university's increased role in the town should be an integral part of
the dialogue when Borough Council holds a special meeting Oct. 4 and the
school holds a public safety forum Oct. 16. Kutztown students usually aren't
the ones committing crimes. Instead, they are more apt to be the victims --
even more reason why university officials should feel obligated to
contribute additional funds, and to make a more concerted effort to protect
students and staff.

Family: Quinn was happy at Kutztown.

Inquirer Staff Writer

Kyle Quinn

The mother of Kyle Quinn, the Kutztown University sophomore who was found
beaten to death not far from his dorm, yesterday described her son as a "kind
and gentle soul" who wouldn't start a fight with another person.

"He was very happy to be there," said his mother, Denise Quinn, fighting back
tears, as she stood in the driveway of their two-story colonial home in
Warminster. "He had a lot of friends there, and his brother, Dennis."

She said it was her son's first time living away from home. It lasted only
two weeks.

She felt sure that Kyle, 19, "a homebody" who loved poetry and Bob Dylan and
who played guitar, would be safe at the small campus in Kutztown, home to 12,000
students, especially since his older brother is a senior there.

When Kyle was attacked by three men in their 20s early Friday, he was walking
back to his dorm, alone, after visiting his brother's apartment. The two
brothers were very close, she said.

"It was just random," she said, referring to the assault. She shuddered.

Police have arrested the three men and charged them with aggravated assault
in the attack. The Berks County district attorney is waiting for toxicology
reports on Quinn to determine whether to file homicide charges.

The suspects, all from the Allentown area, had been drinking at Shorty's Bar,
a half-mile from the campus, and allegedly assaulted Quinn as he walked down
Main Street. The men were not students.

"Kyle is nonconfrontational. He wouldn't have antagonized anyone," said
Denise Quinn, an English-as-a-second-language teacher at the Everett McDonald
Elementary School in Warminster.

She said her son was a history major and also was interested in philosophy.
"He talked about being a professor," she said.

Denise Quinn said her son had played varsity soccer at William Tennent High
School and also took up karate.

"I think he was up to a purple belt. I'd have to go up to his room to look,"
glancing at the upstairs, and then taking a deep breath.

Quinn spent his freshman year commuting to Pennsylvania State University in
Abington.

"He was a homebody; he initially wasn't sure what he wanted to do and didn't
want to go away his first year," Denise Quinn said.

That changed this year. He couldn't wait, she said.

Kyle Quinn arrived on campus two weeks ago to get set up.

His funeral is set for 5 p.m. today at St. John Bosco Catholic Church in
Hatboro.

"He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Patricia Quinn, his
paternal grandmother, who also lives in Warminster. "It's so horrific - he was
such a sweet, wonderful, kind-hearted boy who wouldn't hurt a flea."

The grandmother remembers the last time she saw him. "He was here to say
good-bye before he and his brother went to Kutztown. He was so excited to leave
the home and go off to college," she said, through small sobs.

Patricia Quinn said the family is devastated. "It's your worst nightmare -
but God gets you through," she said.

Kyle's father, Leo Quinn 3d, was unavailable for comment. He is divorced from
Kyle's mother. He is the chairman of the Warminster Township supervisors.

At the Five Ponds Golf Club Restaurant, where Kyle Quinn was a dishwasher and
kitchen worker the past three summers, Joanne Cosby, the banquet coordinator,
was still distraught.

"I cannot believe it. This was not provoked. He would never mouth off to
anyone or ever raise his voice. But he would be one who would stand up and help
somebody," she said.

Cosby said that Kyle Quinn, his older sister, Caitlin, and brother all worked
at the restaurant in recent summers. They were a close-knit bunch, she said.

Cosby said that Kyle and his brother stopped by to get their final paychecks
before leaving for Kutztown.

"They had the van all packed. We were teasing Kyle that he's not a little boy
anymore and he's going off to college," she said. "He was so enthusiastic."

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Three Allentown men will be charged today with killing university student
Kyle Quinn.

By Manuel Gamiz Jr.

Of The Morning Call

October 26, 2007

Three Allentown men accused of attacking Kutztown University student Kyle
Quinn will be charged with murder today, a day after the Lehigh County
coroner ruled Quinn's death a homicide.

Scott Grim, the coroner, said Thursday that Quinn died as a result of blunt
force trauma to the head. He said the results of toxicology tests arrived
this week and showed that nothing in Quinn's system contributed to his
death.

Berks County District Attorney Mark Baldwin said Timothy Gearhart and
brothers Terry and Kenneth Kline will be arraigned this morning on new
charges of homicide, first-degree murder and third-degree murder and two
counts each of aggravated assault and conspiracy.

The suspects have been in Berks County Prison since Sept. 7, when they were
arrested on assault charges. Baldwin said they participated in the beating
death of Quinn on Kutztown's Main Street early that morning.

Keith Fister, chief county detective, said he would not say how many times
Quinn was hit and by whom, or whether the fatal injury was caused by fists,
his head hitting the sidewalk or another manner.

Fister said authorities will provide more information and answer questions
at a news conference today after the arraignments by District Judge Gail
Greth of Fleetwood.

Kutztown police found Quinn, 19, of Warminster Township, Bucks County, lying
in a pool of blood around 2:30 a.m. He was walking from his older brother's
apartment to his dorm room when the three men accosted him, police said.

Kenneth Kline, 21, of 930 Oak St., Terry Kline, 22, whose Allentown address
is not known, and Gearhart, 23, of 124 S. 10th St., at first were charged
with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and
conspiracy. Two other men with them were not charged.

The Klines and Gearhart have been jailed under $10 million bail each and
were to face a preliminary hearing Tuesday, a date that probably will change
with the murder charges.

Under the Pennsylvania Crimes Code, first-degree murder denotes an
intentional killing. Third-degree murder covers all other kinds of killings,
except those committed during a felony, which is second-degree murder.

Quinn's parents, Leo and Denise, were not ready to comment Thursday,
according to his sister.

Authorities have said the Klines and Gearhart were looking for a fight the
night Quinn was killed. They and two other men, Derek Houser and Andrew
Weber, both 22, were friends from Allen High School, according to family
members, and drove into Kutztown late Sept. 6 to celebrate Terry Kline's
22nd birthday.

After drinking at Shorty's Bar on Main Street, they piled into Houser's car
and drove down an alley, stopping at Main Street, court documents say. The
Klines and Gearhart got out of the car and started causing problems with ''a
group of kids,'' Houser told police. Houser and Weber stayed in the car.

Houser told police he saw the Klines and Gearhart yelling at a man he did
not recognize, and that he saw Terry Kline punch the man and the man lying
on the sidewalk with blood around his head, according to an arrest
affidavit. Weber said he remembered Terry Kline cursing at the man lying on
the sidewalk, the affidavit says.

Moments after the three men got back into the car, a Kutztown police
corporal pulled them over.

Since Quinn's death, described by Kutztown University President F. Javier
Cevallos at the time as ''a senseless isolated random act of violence,''
safety has been of paramount concern at the university and in the borough.

A neighborhood watch for the area around the university was reactivated,
police have beefed up patrols downtown, and borough and university officials
are pushing for video cameras to help keep an eye on Main Street.

Friends have said Quinn had a black belt in karate, loved soccer and the
outdoors and Bob Dylan's music. He was a sophomore history major and had
transferred to Kutztown after a year at Penn State-Abington. His brother,
Dennis, is a senior at Kutztown and also a history major.

Baldwin, the district attorney, said Berks detectives and Kutztown police
worked together on the investigation. They were assisted by Kutztown
University police, Berks-Lehigh Regional police and Grim, who was involved
because Quinn died in a Lehigh County hospital.

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Three men charged with murder in the death of a Kutztown University student
last month used a large wooden chair or table leg when they hit him, the
Berks County district attorney said today.

District Attorney Mark Baldwin said at a press conference the laceration on
the side of the head of victim Kyle Quinn was consistent with the use of the
chair or table leg in the fatal blow.

The press conference followed today's arraignment of Timothy Gearhart and
brothers Terry and Kenneth Kline on charges of homicide, first-degree murder
and third-degree murder and two counts each of aggravated assault and
conspiracy. They're being held in Berks County Prison without bail.

According to the arrest papers, Quinn was talking on a cell phone on Sept. 7
as he walked along Main Street in Kutztown. Kenneth Kline asked Quinn who he
was talking to and Quinn said, "Not you," the documents said.

Kenneth Kline took Quinn's phone and threw it across the street. Afterward
the men argued, then Gearhart hit Quinn with the chair leg, the documents
said.

During their investigation of Quinn's death, authorities found a wooden
chair or table leg near Main Street; it was sent to the state police crime
lab for analysis. The results of that analysis are not available yet.

Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim said yesterday that Quinn died as a result
of blunt force trauma to the head. He said the results of toxicology tests
arrived this week and showed that nothing in Quinn's system contributed to
his death.

Baldwin said he hasn't determined if he will seek the death penalty in the
case.

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Kyle Quinn was talking on his cell phone and walking back to his dorm room
at Kutztown University early Sept. 7 when he came upon someone he didn't
know, Kenneth Kline, who was urinating on Main Street, according to an
arrest affidavit.

Kline, who along with his brother and a friend had moments earlier tried to
pick a fight with another man, asked Quinn who he was talking to, the
affidavit says. Quinn replied, ''Not you.'' Kline got mad, snatched the cell
phone and threw it across the street.

He cursed at Quinn, a sophomore history major from Bucks County who had
started attending the school less than two weeks earlier. Terry Kline,
Kenneth's older brother, and their friend Timothy Gearhart joined in the
cursing, trying to spark a fight, the affidavit says.

Without warning, Gearhart picked up a wooden chair or table leg and hit
Quinn in the head, felling the 19-year-old instantly, a prosecutor said.
Terry Kline kept cursing at Quinn, even as he lay bleeding and dying on the
sidewalk, witnesses told police.

Earlier, after a night of drinking at a Kutztown bar, the three Allentown
men were heard talking about how they wanted to cap their night of
celebrating Terry Kline's 22nd birthday: ''Let's f--- someone up,'' they
said, the affidavit says.

Quinn, of Warminster Township, was ''an innocent victim who was in the wrong
place at the wrong time,'' Berks County District Attorney Mark Baldwin said
at a news conference Friday after Terry Kline, Kenneth Kline, 21, and
Gearhart, 23, were charged with murder.

''This community has been devastated and torn apart in recent weeks as a
result of this senseless violence and unprovoked attack on an innocent
victim,'' Baldwin said.

Although the affidavit only notes the use of a stick, Baldwin said Quinn's
head had several bruises, indicating punches were also thrown. He said the
cut on the side of Quinn's head was consistent with the use of the chair or
table leg in the fatal blow.

Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim ruled Thursday that Quinn died as a result
of blunt force trauma to the head. He said toxicology tests received this
week showed nothing in Quinn's system contributed to his death.

Dr. Saralee Funke, a forensic pathologist at Lehigh Valley Hospital, said
Quinn died of a massive hemorrhage due to a cerebral artery tear, the
affidavit says.

During their investigation, authorities found a leg from a piece of
furniture near the crime scene in the 100 block of W. Main Street and sent
it to the state police crime lab for analysis, Baldwin said. The results are
not yet available.

The Klines and Gearhart were charged with homicide, first-degree murder and
third-degree murder and two counts each of aggravated assault and
conspiracy. They were sent back to Berks County Prison, where each had been
held under $10 million bail on assault charges since the day of the attack.
Because this is now a homicide case, there is no bail.

Baldwin said he has not decided whether to seek the death penalty.

The three men and two others, Derik Houser and Andrew Weber, both 22, were
friends from Allen High School, according to family members, and drove into
Kutztown late Sept. 6 to celebrate Terry Kline's birthday.

After drinking at Shorty's Bar on Main Street, they got into Houser's sport
utility vehicle. Houser told police he remembered the three men talking
about hurting someone as they sat in the back seat.

They drove down an alley and stopped near the corner of Noble and Main
streets, where the Klines and Gearhart got out to harass a ''group of
kids,'' later identified as Michael McCusker and two of his friends, the
affidavit says.

McCusker told police the Klines and Gearhart asked him, 'What the f---- are
you looking at?'' and tried to start a fight. Before anything happened, a
Kutztown police car pulled into the area and chased off the troublemakers.
Later, McCusker said he saw the same men being arrested by Kutztown police.

Borough police Cpl. Paul Clery said that at 2:27 a.m. Sept. 7 he saw Terry
Kline step over Quinn, who was motionless, on his way to get into an SUV.

Police interviewed the Klines and Gearhart, who gave similar statements, the
affidavit says. They said they had stopped near Main Street because they had
to urinate. Quinn, who was walking down the street talking on his cell
phone, came upon Kenneth Kline.

The Klines and Gearhart said they yelled at Quinn, and Gearhart hit him in
the head with a ''stick.''

Baldwin did not say how the others assaulted Quinn. According to state law,
he said, the homicide and murder charges cover all three men because they
were involved either as a ''principal or as an accomplice.''

Houser and Weber have not been charged, Baldwin said, because they never got
out of the vehicle. He said they have cooperated with police.

During their arraignment before District Judge Gail Greth of Fleetwood,
Gearhart and the Klines bowed their heads and sobbed, rarely speaking. When
Greth asked them if they could read and write, Terry Kline said, ''I can't
read'' and that he ''somewhat'' understands his rights.

The Klines listed their Allentown address as 930 Oak St., and Gearhart
listed his as 919 S. 10th St.

At Baldwin's request, Greth dismissed an earlier criminal complaint charging
the men only with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment
and conspiracy.

Escorted out of the courtroom, they grimaced when they passed family
members, and Terry Kline mouthed ''I love you'' to one of them.

Kyle Quinn's father, Leo Quinn, speaking on behalf of relatives and friends,
said he would not comment at this time.

''[Kyle Quinn was] an innocent victim who was in the wrong place at the

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Allentown men held for trial in Kutztown student's death

The lawyer for two brothers accused in the beating death of Kyle Quinn said
no evidence was presented in court Monday to show his clients assaulted the
Kutztown University student.

"There was only one hit and neither of these guys delivered it," said attorney
Eric Dowdle of Bethlehem, who represents Terry and Kenneth Kline of Allentown.

But Berks County prosecutor Brian G. McDonnell argued at a preliminary hearing
that the Klines participated in the attack -- "They worked together as a team"
-- and all the evidence hadn't been presented. Previously, authorities said
Quinn had several bruises on his head.

After hearing the arguments, District Judge Gail Greth of Fleetwood ruled that
the Klines and Timothy Gearhart must face trial on a number of charges,
including first-degree murder. They are scheduled to appear in Berks County
Court on Dec. 26, when prosecutors will indicate whether they will seek the
death penalty.

About two dozen relatives and friends of Quinn, a sophomore history major from
Warminster Township, Bucks County, attended the packed hearing. Family members
said they are still not ready to comment.

Relatives and friends of the Klines and Gearhart also attended the hearing, and
about two dozen waited outside. As the three men were escorted out of the
courtroom, some yelled encouraging words to them.

According to testimony at the hearing, the men were belligerent and tried to
walk away from the crime scene when Kutztown police Cpl. Paul Clery confronted
them with his gun drawn.

Clery was among four law enforcement officers who testified about the chaotic
night, which devastated Quinn's family, the college campus and community during
the second week of school.

He said the Klines and their friend Gearhart, also of Allentown, were in the
back seat of a sport utility vehicle that Clery stopped at 2:27 a.m. Sept. 7 in
the 100 block of W. Main Street, a few feet from Quinn. The 19-year-old was on
the sidewalk motionless and bleeding from a large gash on his forehead, Clery
testified.

At one point, Terry Kline, 22, got out of the SUV after being ordered to stay
inside and approached Clery, who had his gun pointed at him, Clery said.

During the hearing, McDonnell, first assistant district attorney, introduced 11
pieces of evidence, including statements made by the three men, an autopsy
report and photos of the crime scene, the victim and the murder weapon. The
statements made by the Klines and Gearhart were not read in open court.

According to court records: Kyle Quinn was talking on his cell phone and walking
back to his Kutztown University dorm room early Sept. 7 when he came upon
Kenneth Kline, who was urinating on Main Street.

Kenneth Kline, 21, asked Quinn who he was talking to, and Quinn replied, "Not
you." Kline got mad, snatched the cell phone and threw it across the street. His
brother and Gearhart, 23, joined him in cursing and yelling at Quinn. Gearhart
picked up a stick -- prosecutors say it was a wooden chair or table leg -- and
hit Quinn in the head, knocking him to the ground. Terry Kline kept cursing at
Quinn, witnesses told police.

Earlier, after drinking at Shorty's Bar in Kutztown, the three talked about
wanting to fight with someone and tried to pick a fight with another man before
they encountered Quinn. Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim ruled that Quinn died
as a result of blunt force trauma to the head.

In his testimony, Clery said he was the first officer to arrive to the scene and
spotted Terry Kline near Quinn. Kline looked at the officer, then got into an
SUV that appeared to be getting ready to leave, Clery said.

While the three backseat passengers were acting up, the driver and front-seat
passenger, Derik Houser and Andrew Weber, both 22, complied with Clery's order
to stay put, he said.

When back-up arrived, the five occupants were placed in cruisers and taken to
police headquarters.

Kutztown officer Brian A. Klouser testified he found a leg from a piece of
furniture, which he described as a 2-foot to 21/2-foot wooden table or chair
leg, 35 to 40 feet from Quinn, and Quinn's cell phone, broken in three pieces,
in the middle of W. Main Street. Both were sent to the state police crime lab
for analysis, he said.

Detective W. Douglas Weaver of the Berks County district attorney's office
testified he interviewed the Klines and Gearhart at the county prison Sept. 10,
and they all spoke to him about what happened that night.

Another county detective, Gerardo Vega, said he attended the autopsy where Dr.
Saralee Funke, a forensic pathologist at Lehigh Valley Hospital, determined that
Quinn died of a massive hemorrhage due to a cerebral artery tear. Vega said
Quinn also had bruises on the left side of his face and collarbone.

The Klines and Gearhart are charged with homicide, first-degree murder and
third-degree murder and two counts each of aggravated assault and conspiracy.
The Klines listed their Allentown address as 930 Oak St., and Gearhart listed
his as 919 S. 10th St.

Gearhart's lawyer, chief public defender Glenn Welsh, made no closing argument.
District Judge Greth asked for a 15-minute recess before ruling that the case
should go to county court. The three men were then sent back to the county
prison without bail.

University, Borough Take A Lesson From Tragedy

KUTZTOWN CRACKDOWN

Students, faculty take active part in public safety.

After a late night celebrating his 22nd
birthday, Terry Kline jumped up and down in an alley with his shirt off and
fists clenched, looking like a boxer preparing to fight.

Brian Klouser, a Kutztown patrolman, watched him for a few seconds in the early
morning hours of Sept. 7, 2007, before asking him if there was a problem.

''No officer, no problem,'' Kline replied.

About eight minutes later, Klouser encountered Kline again after responding to a
call on W. Main Street. This time, there definitely was a problem.

A patrolman was holding Kline and two others at gunpoint while 19-year-old Kyle
Quinn lay bleeding to death on the pavement after being randomly confronted by
the men and clubbed in the head with a table leg.

Authorities, who initiated a crackdown on alcohol-related crimes since the
slaying, would like to believe such a thing couldn't happen in the college town
today. Their tolerance for shenanigans has dropped, their presence on Main
Street has increased and they now have plenty of helpers.

''We're trying to be more vigilant toward alcohol-related crimes,'' said Sgt.
Raymond Schell, the officer running the department until a new chief is hired.

On Thursdays, a favorite party night in college towns, police in sport utility
vehicles drive up and down Main Street as volunteer watch groups formed in the
days after Quinn's death roam side streets and alleys on alert for anything
suspicious.

Arrest reports reflect that scrutiny. Forty people have been arrested for public
drunkenness in the year since Quinn's death, a 74 percent spike over the
previous 12 months; drunken driving arrests are up 193 percent, liquor law
violations 75 percent, and disorderly conduct arrests are up slightly. By
cracking down on those crimes, police had hoped to keep alcohol-infused rage
from escalating to assault. In fact, nine fewer assaults occurred in the borough
between September 2007 and August 2008 than the previous year.

''I think what they're doing is fine right now,'' said Jenna Laczkowski, 21,
standing outside Shorty's Bar with friends last Thursday. ''They're making sure
that everybody is OK.''

Witnesses throughout the trial last week for Terry, now 23, and Kenneth Kline,
22, said the brothers and their friend, Timothy Gearhart – all nonstudents who
traveled from Allentown to party – roamed around town in an SUV after a night of
drinking, looking to fight. They discovered an easy target in Quinn, a Kutztown
sophomore from Warminster, Bucks County, who was walking alone from his
brother's apartment to his dorm room just before 2:30 a.m.

The brothers, who confronted Quinn as he talked on a cell phone, were convicted
of conspiracy to commit third-degree murder, aggravated assault and conspiracy
to commit aggravated assault on Monday.

Gearhart, 24, is serving 20-40 years in state prison after admitting in August
that he grabbed a table leg that was on the pavement and delivered the blow that
killed Quinn and rocked the small college town.

Almost immediately, a watch group formed with volunteer students, faculty and
residents. After going through training with police, KUBoK -- which stands for
Kutztown University and Borough of Kutztown -- formed patrols that stroll the
borough streets Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, on the lookout for
suspicious activity and stray objects that could be used as weapons.

Last Thursday, in a chilly drizzle, three volunteers with KUBoK armbands
strolled wet borough roads that reflected street lights and neon bar signs. As
students bounced from bar to bar, the patrol remained sober and vigilant, ready
to phone or radio police at the first sign of trouble.

Joe Haughey, a 23-year-old graduate student who remained on patrol until the wee
hours of Friday morning, said the group's purpose is to provide safety, not
tattle on fellow students. He said KUBoK, which includes about 80 of the campus'
10,000 students, also escorts those walking alone.

''When it first started I think a lot of people were confused,'' said Haughey,
keeping one ear on messages broadcast over a radio from another KUBoK group.
''They thought it was an organization for busting parties and that's not really
what it was. It seems that more people are accepting now and seeing that it's
just helping people out.''

After Quinn's death, consultants hired by the university and the borough found
that by failing to arrest people for underage drinking and other such behaviors,
police were making the problem worse.

Taking the report to heart, the borough's 10-officer police force increased
bicycle and walking patrols during the main partying nights, said Mayor Sandy
Green. There were 28 bike patrols in the 12 months before Quinn's death and 84
in the year following it. Foot patrols increased from 220 to 290 in that time.

Green said if KUBoK volunteers would have seen Terry Quinn shirtless and
bouncing around, they would have followed him inconspicuously to see what he was
up to.